Bibasis

For the ancient Spartan dance, see Bibasis (dance).

Bibasis, the awlets, are a genus of mostly-diurnal skipper butterflies.^[2] The genus is confined to the Indomalayan realm. Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species (B. aquilina, B. iluska, B. sena), the remainder having been removed to Burara.^[3][4] Hideyuki Chiba's 2009 revision of subfamily Coeliadinae retained those three and added B. mahintha as a fourth species.^[5]

Bibasis
Ventral view, B. sena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Coeliadinae
Genus:	Bibasis Moore, [1881]
Synonyms[1]
Gecana Swinhoe, 1912 Pola Swinhoe, 1912 Sartora Swinhoe, 1912 Tothrix Swinhoe, 1912 Zehala Swinhoe, 1912 Burara Swinhoe, 1893 Ismene Swainson, 1820

Species

• Bibasis iluska (Hewitson, 1867) – Sulawesi
• Bibasis mahintha Moore 1874 – Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
• Bibasis nestor (Möschler, 1878) – Indonesia (Java, Lombok, Suwumba, etc)
• Bibasis sena (Moore, 1866) – orange-tailed awlet – India, Sri Lanka, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra, Sulawesi, etc), Malaysia, Philippines.